Resources

Blogging is just the start! Here are some of the subscriptions, sites, and services to support you with growing your site.

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Pinning Perfect: This course will help you unravel the Pinterest mystery. This course is one of the most valuable things you can do up your Pinterest game and drive traffic to your site.

Smart Phone Marketing School from Tabitha Carro needs to go on your must do list if you’re wanting to up your photo game without investing the money or time in a camera. Learn how to take amazing photos and make videos from your phone. This self-paced course has the added benefit of a supportive Facebook group to help keep you up to date.

Newsletter Services

Mailchimp-This is the service I use. Once you get your newsletter template set up (it is a little time consuming), get a newsletter out is so easy. I send a monthly newsletter out for my teaching blog, and I can have it ready to go in under 20 minutes.

Constant Contact-Don’t know much about this one! But I have friends who love it.

Convert Kit-And same here. I don’t know much about this one either, but I have friends who love it.

Hosting/Domain

GoDaddy: Want to .com your blogger site {see this tutorial} or get started with a host for your WordPress site? GoDaddy is a great entry level WordPress hosting provider.

Tech Surgeons: Many of my blogging friends with more significant traffic work with Jay from Tech Surgeons. I’ll be changing my hosting to this service soon. It is more expensive, but the customer support is top notch.

Blog Templates and Themes

Georgia Lou Studios is my favorite source for Blogger templates and WordPress theme. While the templates and themes are beautiful, Heather’s customer service is what has made me return over (and over and over and over).

Design Sites

Stencil: Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram . . . . each site has a preferred size and none of them are the same. Stencil makes it easy to optimize your image size for each platform. It’s easier than ever to keep your branding consistent since Stencil has recently added the ability to upload your fonts.

Canva: Canva also makes it easy to keep branding consistent while making optimized images for each platform. Their set up has you upload branding images as well as your design colors to make creating images a breeze.

Stock Photo

Depositphotos: This is my go to site for stock images for creating eye catching sliders, Facebook, and Pinterest images for my teaching blog.

Online Storage and Backups

Dropbox: Dropbox makes it easy to save files on your computer, share them, or access them from where ever you are.